Wiley-Blackwell announces new publishing partnership with the Society of Actuaries - March 6, 2012
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with the Society of Actuaries to publish six publications in the field of actuarial science, beginning in 2012. The publications are designed to prepare for the Construction… Read More
Seven titles from Brill Academic Publishers join Taylor & Francis’ journals portfolio - March 5, 2012
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group, UK, has announced that it will be adding 7 journals to its Science, Technology and Engineering portfolio. These titles are transferring from Brill Academic Publishers over the coming weeks. Following the transfer, the journals will be published under the Taylor… Read More
Baker & Taylor to make nearly 100,000 original Smashwords ebooks available to Blio readers - March 5, 2012
Baker & Taylor, Inc., a distributor of digital and physical books, together with K-NFB Reading Technology, developer of the Blio e-reading application, have announced a distribution agreement with indie ebooks distributor Smashwords. The deal will bring nearly 100,000 independently-published ebooks to the Blio store. Blio… Read More
OCLC transfers rights to license publisher-owned databases to EBSCO - March 2, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has transferred to EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) the rights to license publisher-owned databases that are currently available through the OCLC FirstSearch reference service. This transaction is intended to complete the cooperative’s transition out of the role of content… Read More
MarkLogic, Hortonworks partnership to enhance Big Data apps with Apache Hadoop - March 2, 2012
Data analytics products firm MarkLogic Corporation, US, has announced that it has joined the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program. Hortonworks is a commercial vendor promoting the development and support of Apache Hadoop. The partnership is projected to help businesses and public sector agencies take the next step… Read More
Blackboard and Datatel+SGHE announce strategic partnership to integrate Colleague with Blackboard Learn 9.1 - March 2, 2012
Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc, US, and Datatel+SGHE have announced a strategic partnership to integrate Colleague with Blackboard Learn 9.1 through Datatel+SGHE’s Intelligent Learning Platform (ILP). The planned integration will make it easier for institutions to manage information from their administrative and academic… Read More
Elsevier/Gold Standard to be exclusive distributor of new price type, Predictive Acquisition Cost - March 1, 2012
Drug database provider Elsevier/Gold Standard, US, has announced an agreement with Glass Box Analytics to become the exclusive distributor of a new price type, Predictive Acquisition Cost (PAC). Glass Box Analytics represents a strategic joint venture between Pathria Analytics LLC and ChainDrugStore.net. Together they bring advanced… Read More
OCLC and Relais International partner to share data and services from the OCLC WorldShare Platform - March 1, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and Relais International, which provides systems to support interlibrary loan and document delivery services, have signed an agreement that will allow mutual subscribers access to WorldCat data and OCLC services through the OCLC WorldShare Platform. Under this new partnership, Relais… Read More
SAGE to publish Association of Research Ethics Committees journal – Research Ethics - March 1, 2012
Academic and professional publisher SAGE will publish Research Ethics, the quarterly journal of the Association of Research Ethics Committees (AREC), with the first SAGE issue appearing in March 2012. Research Ethics publishes original papers and review articles as well as informative case studies. It is… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell adds 44 titles to its journal publishing programme in 2012 - February 29, 2012
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that it will begin publishing 44 titles new to its journal programme in 2012. This includes 16 new launches and 40 journals published in collaboration with societies or other organisations.… Read More
